Karen W

Yes, I'm sure. And recall from my first post that this hasn't happened only to one source, but I've noticed a problem with several. I haven't meticulously examined *all* my sources yet, and hope I don't have to. Now I did go to bed last night leaving TMG open and my computer running... and of course not backed up

I wish this were the answer... Let me describe the problem in more detail: A week or so ago I created a new project with a subset of the persons in my master project. So looking at "Melvin Willard" in the project spun off I see that I have Source # 1092 for his WWI draft registration record. This source #'s abbreviation is titled Ancestry Dot Com Database. Now looking at "Melvin Willard" in the master project I see that the source for his WWI draft registration record is # 1092. But the abbreviation is titled AmericanAncestors dot Org database. Now I am supposed to have a source for data I get from AmericanAncestors.org but... I ran a List of Citations report and looked at what tags used source #1092 -- thousands. And indeed they are a merging of sources that came from AmericanAncestors.org and from ancestry.com How on earth could this have happened?

I'm in full-blown panic here. I found a bit of info in an ancestry.com database that I want to add to an existing person in my TMG project. When I looked up the source I've previously created for citing ancestry.com info (and used many many many times) in the Master Source list, it wasn't there. At first just puzzled, I looked up an individual I recalled having a tag using the now missing source. Reading the tag showed a source, all right, but it wasn't the right source, instead it was some other source that is not used very often in my project, yet the number of citations for that source in the Master Source List matches approximately how often I think the missing source has been used. Looking through the Master Source List I spotted the absence of a few other sources. What could have possibly happened and how do I fix it?

Okay. This wasn't the answer I wanted to get. How do I request that this option be added to a future release? A simple check box in the Miscellaneous tab of the Report Options: "carry all children forward?" yes or no.

I am using Gold Edition v 7.04 on Win 7. My favorite report format is a custom Journal Descendants saved in a Word file type, but it lacks one feature I sorely need: the ability to check an option to carry forward to the next section ALL children, even those that died in infancy, not just those that grew up and reproduced. My work-around has been to assign these offspring-free individuals a gender-unknown child named "Placeholder". But it is unbelievably tedious to later go through and strip these placeholders out of the body of the Word document as well as from the name index at the back even using a Word find and replace macro. If I create a report and then, after acquiring new info, want to generate it afresh, I have the stripping out to do all over again. This technique also clutters up my TMG data. Are there any better ways to get what I want?